Programming Quotes - Page 29

• Ninety percent of games lose money; 10 percent make a lot of money. And there's a consistency around the competitive advantages you create, so if you can actually learn how to do the art, the design, and the programming, you would be consistently very profitable.

  Gabe Newell

  Art, Games, Design

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think that you try to raise the bar on whatever you do because you know, in this day of having to deal with a lot of reality TV, people say that scripted programming is dying, so you have to try to create something that can live in people's minds, long after they see it.

  Kevin Costner

  Reality, Thinking, Long

  "Kevin Costner Talks HATFIELDS & McCOYS, Dramatic License in a Historical Tale, and Future Projects". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 16, 2012.

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• We really didn't have the option of being couch potatoes when I was growing up. There were only three television channels and the only kid's programming was on Saturday morning. We always played outside until we could hear Mom calling us (not by cell phone but with her hands cupped around her mouth) that it was dinner time.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Mom, Morning, Growing Up

  "Jeff Foxworthy. A comedian gets serious about reading". BookPage interview, bookpage.com. October 2010.

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• I love doing the music. I love programming beats and kind of working on the music as much, if not more, than the actual rapping.

  Joaquin Phoenix

  Rap, Kind, Beats

  Source: dishmag.com

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• The system is only as good as the person programming it. If you don't have the follow-through, your system is useless. And by the way, it's that way in parenting; it's that way in marriages.

  Jamie Lee Curtis

  Useless, Way, Follow Through

  "Jamie Lee Curtis Comes Clean". Interview with Andrew Eccles, www.goodhousekeeping.com. September 3, 2010.

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• I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.

  Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor

  Horse, War, Italian

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• I don't think there is enough educational programming, but unfortunately, television is built around advertising and those shows don't get the big ratings.

  Will McDonough

  Educational, Thinking, Television

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• FORTRAN was the language of choice for the same reason that three-legged races are popular.

  Ken Thompson

  Race, Choices, Three

  1983 Turing Award Lecture, "Communications of the ACM" 27 (8), (pp. 761-763), August 1984.

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• All programming is maintenance programming, because you are rarely writing original code.

  Dave Thomas

  Writing, Maintenance, Software

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• In college, before video games, we would amuse ourselves by posing programming exercises.

  Ken Thompson

  Exercise, College, Games

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• You can't trust code that you did not totally create yourself.

  Ken Thompson

  Trust, Code, Self Trust

  "Reflections on Trusting Trust". Communications of the ACM 27 (8), (pp. 761-763), August 1984.

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• The X server has to be the biggest program I've ever seen that doesn't do anything for you.

  Ken Thompson

  Program, Server

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• The pop-star thing bores me because it's somebody programming someone else. Stand over here, sing that, no, sing it like this, talk like that, when they ask you this, don't say that, say this, hold that, drive this, stay here, live there - you're not even a human being. You're a puppet.

  Randy Jackson

  Stars, Puppets, Pops

  "Randy Jackson: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 15, 2011.

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• Although I may find the type of programming seen during the 2004 Super Bowl and the 2003 Golden Globe Awards disgusting and disturbing, we must always work hard to defend the cherished freedoms so clearly outlined in our Constitution, including a healthy and free press.

  Mike Rogers

  Hard Work, Awards, Healthy

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• Pay-TV companies that built their businesses on the backs of local and network broadcast signals should pay a fair price for access to that high-value programming.

  Gordon Smith

  Pay, Tvs, Should

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• Programming is legitimate and necessary academic endeavour.

  Donald Knuth

  Academic, Endeavour

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• Programming (or making music) at night is dreamtime, a period exclusively mental, utterly absorbed, sustained and timeless, placeless, disembodied.

  Stewart Brand

  Night, Timeless, Periods

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• If you've got a restaurant, you definitely want the line to be out the door the first night, but you're more interested in people continuing to come to the restaurant. And that's their outlook, a little bit. I think it allows for more creativity, in the process. It allows people to make interesting programming that maybe wouldn't have a place on broadcast networks, if you were just counting people.

  Mitchell Hurwitz

  Creativity, Night, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• When our goals are clearly defined and intelligently set, you have, in essence, taken a major step toward programming your left brain. That frees your right brain to be its creative best.

  Zig Ziglar

  Taken, Essence, Goal

  Zig Ziglar “Over the Top”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• A programming language is a tool that has profound influence on our thinking habits.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Thinking, Profound, Tools

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• The expensive ones are for Starz. No. We decided, as part of our Encore strategy, to broaden and strengthen and help focus the Encore plexus by adding original programming.

  Chris Albrecht

  Focus, Helping, Strategy

  Source: collider.com

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• Throughout my career, I've realized that there are a lot of great opportunities out there to be associated with programming. It may have started elsewhere, as Crimson Petal did in the UK. So, our main strategy for Encore is to go through those types of partnership acquisitions.

  Chris Albrecht

  Opportunity, Careers, Acquisition

  Source: collider.com

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• I think we're going to transition with our comedy programming, trying to broaden the audience and broaden what the network does. Those Thursday comedies, which the critics love and we love, tend to be a bit more narrow than we'd ultimately like, as we go forward.

  Robert Greenblatt

  Thinking, Trying, Transition

  Source: collider.com

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• I try to watch as many movies as possible within a group setting instead of just in front of my laptop. It's better to watch something and chat about it with your programming peers afterward.

  Tim League

  Trying, Groups, Watches

  Source: collider.com

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• I started working at Bravo in 2005, when I was offered a job by Lauren Zalaznick, the network's chairman. She encouraged me to start a blog. I wrote behind-the-scenes gossip about 'Battle of the Network Reality Stars,' the first show I took on as head of current programming.

  Andy Cohen

  Jobs, Stars, Reality

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